This class was extremely helpful. Im very glad that i chose to stay in it because it actually helped me with real life questions, like what the heck am i going to do when i get out of here. This class helped with time management, creating my new schedule (which i would have been lost doing on my own), and it was a nice, refreshing class at the end of the week that helped fill me with ideas of the future. It doesn’t seem so terrifying anymore. The only thing i would change is the time. 😀

When Bill was explaining that whole pie chart method, i was again amazed at the possibilities that go into having an art, graphic design or photography major. I could take pictures for weddings or even of prize winning horses apparently. i never realized the countless opportunities and am no longer trying to find a passion, I’m waiting for it to come to me.

Louis Bourgeois is my favorite artist right now. Many of her quotes relax my nervousness about creating art.

– “I am not what i am, i am what i do with my hands.”

– “All we have to open the past are the five senses…and memory.”

and my favorite:

– “A work of art doesn’t have to be explained.”

She does so many things with the human hand, and i too have been fascinated with drawing them, but she molds them, which come out amazingly beautiful in my opinion.

– “There is nothing so fraught with significance’s as the human hand.”

I have never gone into the gallery until i saw the one that is in there most recently, with the skulls and tall red building. It always amazes me that i still can’t figure out how these artist come up with or are inspired to make such work that goes so well together. How did they even consider making them the size they are? How on earth did they even go about making them? My art major is overwhelming me every day, and i have no clue how i can find something that inspires me so much i create something from myself rather than imitating someone else.

Alex is my professor for design and i had never seen her work. She inspired me to create a pintrest account, because i always find pictures that are interesting or “weird”, and now i have a place to collect and look back at them. Her work with the bags was something i had never seen before, and how she talked about these mass bulks of glitter in bags was new and stuck with me for some reason.

My dream schedule would include Drawing 2, Color and Design or Clay 1, Rhet/Comp 2, a speech class, and some form of history class, and a computer class to get it over with.

Aside from my weekly schedule, i only spend about two or three hours in the week studying, which is probably not ideal. (and why I failed a quiz in ecology) i also stay up too late and end up having to take little naps in the day to make it possible to function. My eating schedule is way off, which i never noticed, so that needs work. i was only eating one good meal a day, if i had time. i also stay up and go on tumblr for hours on end. i never timed how long i stay on but now i realize that that is sucking some of my time away.

Seeing the seniors and what they’ve accomplished, and connections they have made, like the young woman who makes those band posters, was something i had never thought twice about. i never thought about who would make those, and it sound really fun to try, and even get paid to do. There was also the guy who was creating the tea containers, and again, i never considered that someone has to take the time to design packaging. He is doing what he loves and creating something amazing that people can buy on the daily. I feel overwhelmed with the career options for my art major, i just can’t pick, or even imagine the countless possibilities.

At the pizza party, i saw so many new ways to create art. i always thought of it as a drawing, but the video with the elephants was something i had never seen before. The woman who had the sculptures that looked like they were hanging and weighted, inspired me to look at art in a completely new way. I had never really taken any art classes in high school, but i knew that this was something i wanted to do. i used to think that everything had been done before, now i know that is completely untrue. I’m extremely excited to start the year in a new perspective.

When i “grow up”, or at least graduate college, I would like to have a job that I love, hopefully something to do with art or music. I want my own apartment, enough money to support myself and to be surrounded by my artwork and my own space to create whatever it is I’m working on.